Don't sell the game short on its visual shortcomings, though; it's a deep game, and a thriving community has sprung up around it, at its lightest serving as the glue that holds an otherwise primitive game world together — at its densest coming up with stuff like this: Matul Remrit, the illustrated tale of one particular game of Dwarf Fortress.

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Of all the things I love about video games, this is thing I love most. Games that set their claws so deeply inside someone that they don't just play it, they live it, coming up with stuff like this in their spare time.

Below is a trailer for the story; you can read the thing here, or here, and you can check out Dwarf Fortress here.